IFTF's Future Now: links for 2005-07-27

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The Institute for the Future is an independent nonprofit research group. We work with organizations of all kinds to help them make better, more informed decisions about the future. We provide the foresight to create insights that lead to action. We take an explicitly global approach to strategic planning, linking macro trends to local issues in such areas as technology and society, health and health care, and global business trends.

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IFTF's Future Now is a group weblog, founded by Institute research director Alex Soojung-Kim Pang in September 2003. Its contributors include IFTF researchers interested in emerging technologies, the future of Asia, and the social and economic impacts on new technologies; IFTF corporate affiliates; academic partners; and members of the Innovation Lab, a Danish futures group with offices in Aarhus and Copenhagen. A complete list of contributors is available here.

July 27, 2005

With a Push From the U.N., Water Reveals Its Secrets

Isotope hydrology generates information about the "age, origins, size, flow and fate of a water source... [which] can guide sound water-use policy, letting water engineers better map underground aquifers, conserve supplies and control pollution."

(tags: water environment c2st)
Fortune - Behind Wal-Mart's Astonishing Rise: Bar Codes

How the bar code made WalMart. Essential reading for the RFID age.

(tags: rfid history anthonytownsend)
The New York Review of Books: Very Bad News

Clifford Geertz's long review of Jared Diamond's "Collapse" and Richard Posner's "Catastrophe."

(tags: risk globalization catastrophe future environment)

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